Research in Chemistry

Research is central to the mission of Drexel University’s Department of Chemistry. Students, faculty and staff all contribute to a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research program. The research activities of the faculty include pioneering work in biochemistry, materials chemistry, theoretical chemistry, polymer chemistry and atmospheric chemistry. Our research is supported by corporations and public institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Pennsylvania Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health.

The chemistry department strives to maintain a community of research scholars (faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students) that is large enough to provide a variety of experiences within chemistry, yet small enough to give each student individual attention. Both full-time and part-time plans of study are available.

Research Facilities

Mass Spectrometry Facility

The department maintains a professionally staffed mass spectrometry facility available to all members of the university community. Current operating instrumentation is listed below.

Samples may be submitted for analysis or users may be trained in operation of the instruments for use in long-term projects.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

The professionally staffed NMR facility in the Department of Chemistry is equipped with 300MHz and 500MHz Varian Unity Inova NMR systems; both instruments have multi-nuclear capability. The probe on the 500 MHz instrument is a cryogenically cooled triple resonance model (1H {13C/15N}) suitable for protein analysis.

Instrumental Analytical Laboratory

The Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry is equipped with the usual array of open-access chemical analysis instrumentation, including: